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Burt, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Taymouth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48417. It stands on Atwell Drain. The Survey maps it on the Montrose quadrangle. 1,194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Burt within Saginaw County

Population over time

3 figures

Burt grew from 1,122 to 1,194 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20001,122
20101,228+106 (+9%)
20201,194-34 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

21 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Burt between 2003 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 9 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 June 2020Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYMOUTH FD 0000110 - 2020
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTROSE TOWNSHIP FD 0000073 - 2018
4 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBEE TOWNSHIP FD 1800037 - 2018
10 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYMOUTH FD 103 - 2019
4 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYMOUTH FD 77 - 2019
30 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBEE TOWNSHIP FD 1800029 - 2018
29 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBEE TOWNSHIP FD 1800027 - 2018
29 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBEE TOWNSHIP FD 1800028 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saginaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Burt: 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Albee Clay SampleFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Kish Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Snelenberger Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Saginaw County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burt in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Tornado (F1)Burt$50,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBurt$30,000Trees reported down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBurt$10,000Power poles were reported snapped.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBurt-Multiple trees reported down on houses.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBurt-A trained spotter reported a tree 2 1/2 feet in diameter down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBurt-A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBurt-A trained spotter reported an 8 inch diameter tree blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBurt-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Burt-A tornado was reported at Gary and Bueche Roads by law enforcement. Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindBurt-Law enforcement officials reported that numerous trees had been blown down.
June 2013HailBurt-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBurt-no account filed
July 2007HailBurt-no account filed
March 2006HailBurt-no account filed
June 2005HailBurt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saginaw County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Burnt0.2 miles14
Taymouth1.8 miles14
Morseville2.1 miles14
Fosters4.3 miles16
Birch Run6.0 miles16
Layton Corners6.0 miles14
Luce6.6 miles15
Winter's Motor Court6.8 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BurtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q591747The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867314. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.